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NNA Community Newsletter
October 2023 Issue
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- Virtual NNA Student Research Showcase
- Science Storytelling Series - Filmmaking Workshop
- ARCUS' Arctic Indigenous Scholars Program Invites Applications
- Early Career Research Opportunities
- NNA Project Highlight: Global impacts and social implications of changing thermokarst lake environments near Yukon River Watershed communities
- Upcoming Events
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Virtual NNA Student Research Showcase | |
Science Storytelling Series - Filmmaking Workshop | |
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November 15, 2023 | 11:00am-12:30pm AKT / 1:00-2:30pm MT / 3:00-4:30pm ET
Are you interested in knowledge translation and techniques for science communication? Join producer, script writer, videographer and editor Dr. Ryan Vachon (Provare Media) for a 90-minute filmmaking workshop. Ryan will work with attendees to identify a project mission statement, provide methods for storyboarding and communication, discuss camera and audio gear, approaches to filming, and provide an overview of basics in editing.
Register here. View the science storytelling series webpage here.
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ARCUS' Arctic Indigenous Scholars Program Invites Applications | |
The Arctic Research Consortium of the U.S. (ARCUS) hosts the Arctic Indigenous Scholars Program, which is accepting applications for scholars to travel to Washington, DC until Monday, 6 November 2023 at 5:00 p.m. AKST. This opportunity creates a space for Indigenous scholars to educate and inform policy- and decision-makers engaged in Arctic issues in the nation’s capital. Learn more here. | |
Early Career Researcher Opportunities | |
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Enter to win the PSECCO Photo Contest
The Polar Science Early Career Community Office (PSECCO) is hosting a photo contest to share the beauty of the polar regions and to showcase early career scientists who work in them. They invite your photos of fieldwork, research stations and sites, communities and daily life (with permission), wildlife, and natural and cultural landscapes. There will be prizes for the top three photo submissions, and seven honorable mentions will be celebrated. Read the contest rules and submit your photos here.
Submission deadline: October 31, 2023.
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PSECCO’s Fall 2023 BAJEDI Micro-grant applications are now open
The PSECCO is excited to announce the pre-solicitation call for individuals and organizations to apply for PSECCO Belonging, Accessibility, Justice, Equity, Diversity and Inclusion (BAJEDI) Micro- rants! Do you have an idea that will advance BAJEDI in the polar regions but need a little unding to bring that idea to fr ition? PSECCO is looking to support people or organizations with plans that will lead to tangible impacts in these areas. To apply for BAJEDI Mircro-grant funding, please fill out this application form.
Application deadline: October 31, 2023 at 9:59pm AKT | 11:59pm MT.
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Methane Emissions from a Permafrost-Thaw Lake in Alaska
In thawing permafrost regions of the Arctic, microbes munch on newly unfrozen organic matter and emit methane. This is a concern because the ensuing methane emissions will likely play a major role in future global climate via the greenhouse effect. The Global impacts and social implications of changing thermokarst lake environments near Yukon River Watershed communities project team is investigating one of the highest methane emitting lakes in the Arctic: Big Trail Lake in the Goldstream Valley, north of Fairbanks, Alaska. The team is deploying measurements across a range of scales, including individual chamber measurements at the ground surface, methane bubble surveys and fluxes in the lake, an eddy covariance tower in the middle of the lake, aerial measurements made in the boundary layer by a fixed-wing drone, and valley-wide measurements using a dual frequency-comb spectroscopy instrument that is affixed to a nearby radio tower.
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The team deployed to Big Trail Lake in 2022 and 2023, and at least 3 deployments are being planned in March, July, and September/October of 2024. The team is also working with communities in interior Alaska to better understand and document landscape change due to thawing permafrost.
It’s been an exciting project, and results are coming in that lead the project team to believe the dominant disconnect between ground and aerial estimates of methane flux in the Arctic occurs in the lowest 2 m relating to surface roughness, while a secondary disconnect related to atmospheric mixing occurs across the boundary layer-free troposphere interface. But more work is needed, and these results could change.
For more information about the project, email the project PIs at tyler.jones@colorado.edu or kmwalteranthony@alaska.edu.
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Photo: In March 2023, the team deployed to Big Trail Lake in Goldstream Valley, north of Fairbanks, Alaska. Even in winter, large methane emissions are being documented in the Arctic. | |
Article and photo submitted by Tyler Jones, project PI. | |
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Virtual NNA Student Research Showcase
- November 6, 2023 | 2-3pm AKT / 4-5pm MT / 6-7pm ET
Science Storytelling Series - Filmmaking Workshop
- November 15, 2023 | 11am AKT / 1pm MT / 3pm ET
AGU Session on “Arctic Education & Outreach - Effective Ways of Engaging Diverse Learners in Arctic Science (ED31A)
- December 13, 2023 | 9:30-11:00am MT
Science Storytelling Series - Creating Virtual Tours with Infiniscope
- January 25, 2024 | 10am AKT / 12pm MT / 2pm ET
2024 NNA Annual Community Meeting
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The Navigating the New Arctic Community Office (NNA-CO) is jointly implemented by the University of Colorado Boulder, Alaska Pacific University, and the University of Alaska Fairbanks. The NNA-CO is supported through a cooperative agreement with the U.S. National Science Foundation (Award #2040729).
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